The first time that Saroaj Devi heard about the G20 was when tall green walls began to be erected around the slum in Delhi where she lives.
The new barricades, she soon realised, were to hide their impoverished homes from the foreign leaders and dignitaries who will descend on India’s capital this weekend for the G20 leaders’ summit: part of a £100m facelift that has seen Delhi undergo a glossy upgrade, while its poor communities have been removed from sight and several slums razed.
